DODGERS RALLY NOT IN THE CARDS TRACHSEL KEEPS L.A. FROM GAINING NEW YORK 4, DODGERS 0.Byline: Rich Hammond Rich Hammond Los Angeles Daily News sports writer. Instrumental in bringing the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization closer to the fans. He is the atypical "what a guy" to Kings fans everywhere. Rich Hammond on himself. Staff Writer After every meager mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. groundout Saturday night, the likelihood increased that the Dodgers would blow a great chance to pick up ground in the National League wild-card race. The Dodgers could have moved within two games of the wild-card-leading Philadelphia Phillies “Phillies” redirects here. For other uses, see Phillies (disambiguation). The Philadelphia Phillies are a professional baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. , but their offense shut down against resurgent re·sur·gent adj. 1. Experiencing or tending to bring about renewal or revival. 2. Sweeping or surging back again. Adj. 1. pitcher Steve Trachsel Stephen Christopher Trachsel (born October 31, 1970 in Oxnard, California) is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher with the Chicago Cubs. Trachsel graduated from Troy High School in Fullerton, California in 1988. and the New York Mets
With the Phillies and second-place Florida Marlins The Florida Marlins are a professional baseball team based in Miami Gardens, Florida. The Marlins are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From to the present, the Marlins have played in Dolphin Stadium. losing - and doing little this month to take control of the league's final playoff spot - the Dodgers and their usually strong pitching could have gained a crucial game, but Saturday's loss kept them three back and dropped them a half-game behind Arizona. ``We knew they lost,'' left fielder Jolbert Cabrera Jolbert Cabrera [HOLE-bert kah-BRAY-rah] (born December 8, 1972 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a baseball outfielder/infielder who until recently played with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in Japan's Pacific League. said, ``and we wanted to play with intensity, but we couldn't bring any offense.'' Andy Ashby Trachsel allowed the Dodgers just five baserunners, on a double and four singles, and struck out four. Trachsel left in the eighth after singles by Alex Cora and pinch-hitter Robin Ventura put runners on first and third with one out. Reliever David Weathers then struck out Mike Kinkade and walked Dave Roberts to load the bases. Paul Lo Duca Paul Anthony Lo Duca (born April 12, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York) is a catcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the New York Mets. Previously, Lo Duca played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1998-2004) and Florida Marlins (2004-2005). , the potential tying run, struck out looking on a 2-2 fastball on the outside corner to end the Dodgers' only real scoring chance. Mike Stanton pitched the ninth to complete the six-hit shutout. ``We didn't do much to help ourselves score runs,'' manager Jim Tracy said. ``Beyond the eighth inning, there's not a whole lot to speak of offensively. (Trachsel) did a great job of shutting us down. We didn't force him to pitch out of any jams until we got to (the eighth).'' Trachsel, who pitched a one-hit shutout Monday against Colorado, was clearly on his game, evidenced by the Dodgers' large percentage of groundouts. Trachsel has lost just once in his past eight starts. ``It's as good a run as I've had,'' Trachsel said. ``I'm feeling good, I'm locating good and the defense has been phenomenal over the last few games.'' On the other side of the fortune scale, Ashby's spot in the rotation could be tenuous, given Wilson Alvarez's recent success and Kazuhisa Ishii's imminent return from a sprained knee ligament. Ashby (3-10) had allowed one run on three hits in five innings in his last start but now has lost six of his past seven starts. Ashby went six innings and allowed the four runs on a season-high 11 hits to go with one walk and two strikeouts. Ashby left the clubhouse without talking to reporters. The Dodgers' only baserunners through six innings were Cabrera, who singled in the second but promptly was picked off, and Adrian Beltre, who doubled with one out in the fifth. The Dodgers left him there, with a groundout and strikeout. By that time, the Mets led 4-0. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of struck early and hardly needed to hit the ball out of the infield. Roger Cedeno and Jose Reyes led off the game with infield singles, and the Mets loaded the bases when Beltre didn't arrive at third base in time to field a throw from Ashby on Timo Perez's chopper. Mike Piazza then hit a sacrifice fly to the warning track in right field to score Cedeno, and Jason Phillips scored Reyes with a single. Ashby escaped a bigger inning by retiring Marco Scutaro and Trachsel and stranding two runners. The Mets led 3-0 in the fourth when Ty Wigginton hit a leadoff double, moved to third on Jeff Duncan's sacrifice bunt and scored when Scutaro dribbled a ball toward third base that Beltre could not pick up. Reyes led off the fourth with a home run to right to make it 4-0. Rich Hammond, (818) 713-3611 rich.hammond(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Dodgers center fielder Paul Lo Duca reacts after striking out with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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